[MEI-L] Question about mRest, dur and dots in MEI 3 and 4

[Andrew Hankinson]

Hi Richard,

How are you converting the files? What script or service are you using?

-Andrew

> On 5 Jun 2022, at 18:39, Richard Freedman <rfreedma at haverford.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I am wondering whether someone can help me with confusion about the encoding of mRests.
> 
> Our MEI 3.0 files have certain bars with mRest under a time signature of 3/1.
> 
> The dur of these mRests is recorded as breve in MEI 3.0.  We need, however, to add dots="1" to these for subsequent processing with music21.  This works.
> 
> However, when I convert these files to MEI 4.0. I also see a dur of "breve 1", and the dots="1" are gone.
> 
> What is the meaning of "breve 1" here?  I cannot seem to find the documentation of this attribute value.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Richard
> 
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